Word: directioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman's action was a direct flouting of the Republican majority and of the Democratic conservatives in Congress who together had approved the bill by overwhelming majorities. His action opened the 1948 presidential campaign with a roar and a hiss...
Ironically, Gandhi himself, who has spent a lifetime trying to direct the waters into disciplined channels, had helped to roil his people into turbulence. What he had called the "dumb, toiling, semi-starving millions," who revered (and sometimes worshiped) Gandhi, could understand him when he cried for their freedom; they could not always understand him when he told them they must not use violence to win that freedom. "To inculcate perfect discipline and nonviolence among 400,000,000," he once said, "is no joke...
Fancy Front. Goldschmidt went to hear grey, 61-year-old Paul Paray of the Paris Concerts Colonne direct Beethoven's Eroica at Santiago's ancient Teatro Municipal. As usual, he did not like it. "It wasn't Beethoven," he wrote. "It was a fancy front with nothing behind...
...down to talk it over, the Big Three found themselves no longer close allies. Siqueiros, a red-hot Communist, wanted to declare war on "sterile" elements in the Mexican as well as the Paris School. The "folklorism" in Mexican painting is sissy stuff, he indicated, and that was a direct slap at Rivera, who had become deeply interested in Indian dances and folk art. Rivera plugged a plan to turn Mexico City into a great capital of art. To Orozco this meant turning Mexico City into a tourist trap. The three rewrote Manifesto II more than 15 times before publishing...
...with one of his own favorite games-writing a new Olympic definition for the word "amateur." In its final form, it read: ". . . one whose connection with sport is and has been solely for pleasure . . . and to whom sport is nothing more than recreation without financial gain of any kind, direct or indirect...